sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - humour

Do the Watusi: Art, imitation, and the Obamas

Source: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Maglalang Malkin must have had a slow day, what with the War in Afghanistan, health-care, and America's slide down the slippery slope of Socialism not keeping her busy enough to avoid commenting on Art.

New York Post (Yes Men Climate Edition)

Source: nypost-se.com

Brilliant spoof of the New York Post by the Yes Men, with a twist - all the articles and information in the spoof edition are factually correct.

President Barack Obama, clearly moved and upset, gave a stirring eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral. He gave some fascinating insights into the life of the Senator, especially regarding his sense of humour, his genuine care for others and his persuasive talent.

Some time ago, after I met the guy I called the 'love of my life', and labelled him '11% short of heaven' (because of the score we kept getting on every relationship quiz we did), I was fascinated to find out why we had clicked together so amazingly, despite our different backgro …

Carefully plan your garden to restrict access to the electric meter.

Terrorist group ridiculed in Brüno lashes back

Source: macleans.ca

Brünoisms "Look at the evil people in the world — Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Stalin — what do they all have in common? Moustaches" "Is it a coincidence that all the good people have long hair, like Jesus, and like hippies and, you know, Rod Stewart"

There are five  general tips which seldom fail when one is seeking election and running any kind of campaign, whether big or small. They are, in priority order:

Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now!

Source: linuxologist.com

Well at least according to Dell's website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft's latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!

The One Velociraptor Per Child Project

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person

PonderAbout.com

Source: ponderabout.com

Cartoon by Jules Pfeiffer. Great humour.

(with apologies to all my friends at 85 Broad and any Trans-Tasman sheep f#$kers...) SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

Three days ago I visited a website, saw something that made me laugh out loud, and which I found rather quaint, and thought I would seed it to Newsvine. It was about a sex theme park being closed down in China.

First and foremost, let me begin by stating that I am an unrepentant slob; always have been, always will be. I shouldn't be this way, not after growing up in the white glove inspection household of my parents and attending military school for many years, but I am.

1. (October) Denial: "The GOP is just fine. There are no problems. McCain/Palin are going to Win!!!" 2. (November) Anger: "It's the media, they sabotaged us. "

So ends the caption of my favourite cartoon. Clipped shortly after graduation, it continues to amuse me more than twenty years later. It's graced every fridge I've had, has yellowed considerably, but I doubt that I'll ever throw it out.

A Modest Proposal For Our Seniors [satire]

Source:

NEWS ITEM: The federal Conservatives have doled out grants to 32 seniors groups as part of a $15 million New Horizons for Seniors program. Thirty-one of the grants went to groups in Conservative-held ridings, only one to a Liberal riding.